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13 unusual facts about Machtergreifung


Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht

After the Nazi takeover of power, increased funding became available for mechanization, and in 1934, a development program for standardized chassis was launched.

Fritz Tarnow

After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in early 1933 and the dismantling of the trade unions, Tarnow was arrested on 2 May.

Gau München-Oberbayern

With the ascent of the Nazis to power on 30 January 1933, the so-called Machtergreifung, the party immediately began to disassemble the power of the German states, the Länder.

Hermann Maas

After Hitler's Machtergreifung, he joined the Pfarrernotbund and the Confessing Church along with other notable Protestant theologians such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller and Hans Ehrenberg.

Katja Andy

This promising start of a concert career was cut short by Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January 1933.

Maria von Maltzan

When the Nazis seized power in 1933, Maria's sense of justice made her join different resistance movements against the Nazis almost immediately.

Obersalzberg

Several months after Hitler's 1933 appointment as Chancellor of Germany he purchased Haus Wachenfeld and began making a series of three important renovations.

Oskar Kaufmann

The Machtergreifung, or seizure of power by the Nazi Party in January 1933, caused Kaufmann's partner Stolzer to flee to Palestine in May of that year, and Kaufmann himself followed Stolzer to Palestine in September.

Paul Löbe

Löbe was imprisoned by the Nazi authorities shortly after the Machtergreifung on 30 January 1933, and again in 1944 after the 20 July Plot because of his connections with the resistance circle around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Penzberg

In order to follow Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy the local Nazi leaders wanted to blow up the coal mine which was the economic life blood of the town (The End by Ian Kershaw - p344), so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer (the social democratic mayor of Penzberg until the Nazi takeover in 1933) and others deposed the Nazi mayor.

Schondorf

With the seizure of the Nazis, the Unterschondorf-based Joachim von Moltke took over the mayor's office, but was soon out district leader of the district of Landsberg am Lech.

Wilhelm Backhaus

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Backhaus personally met Adolf Hitler, in May 1933 at the very latest, while accompanying him on a flight to Munich.

Wilhelm Hoegner

For this reason, he was dismissed from government service after the Nazi takeover in 1933 and had to escape to Austria, and from there, in 1934, to Switzerland, where he worked as a free lance writer.


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Alfred Einstein

In 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, he left Nazi Germany, moving first to London, then to Italy, and finally to the United States in 1939, where he held a succession of teaching posts at universities including Smith College, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut.

Dennweiler-Frohnbach

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 82.4%.

Die Deutsche Wochenschau

After the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, the production was supervised and censored by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels, who had realized the enormous significance of newsreels for his propaganda purposes.

Ewiger Wald

The years of the Weimar Republic appeared to be disastrous for people and forest alike to legitimize the assumption of power and thus the film culminated in a National Socialist May Day celebration filmed at the Berlin Lustgarten.

Günther Strupp

Strupp joined the Communist Party, which led to his arrest in 1933 after the Nazis seized power.

Hans-Friedrich Blunck

After Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power, Blunck was chosen on 7 June 1933 to be the second chairman of the Section for Poetry of the Prussian Academy of the Arts; the first chairman was Hanns Johst.

Hermann Maaß

After the Nazis seized power in 1933 he lost this position because all youth organizations were forced to conform to the party line.

Horschbach

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 92.5%.

Johanna Kirchner

In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power, and the dedicated anti-fascist had to go underground, as her help in freeing an anti-Nazi from the Gestapo became known, leading to the danger of her possible arrest.

Karl Amson Joel

After the rise to power of Nazism (1933), Joel was increasingly discriminated against by the regional Nazi Party leaders, especially Julius Streicher.

Otterden

From 1933 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1948, Otterden was the home of the Bunce Court School, founded by Anna Essinger when she closed her German boarding school after the Nazi Party seized power and moved her school to England.

Rutsweiler an der Lauter

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 89.6%.

Tuttlingen station

Although the building had been planned by the railway administration in Stuttgart before the Nazi seizure of power, there are also similarities with monumental Nazi architecture.

Unterjeckenbach

This was evacuated after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, along with 14 other villages in the region, to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

Wahnwegen

In the 1930 Reichstag elections, 3% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, but by the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 36.1%.